Quotes About Obtuse

That was the way most people were - stupid.

The entire cerebral mechanism can be reproduced mechanically. So much the better, as this will show the most obtuse of us where the error lies. But when we want to go beyond academic know-how—that sclerosis of the spirit—to fertile thought, the cerebral mechanism is no longer adequate.

At our age the imagination across the sorry facts lifts us to make roses stand before thorns. Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse— at least, blinded by the light, young love is. But we are older, I to love and you to be loved, we have, no matter how, by our wills survived to keep the jeweled prize always at our finger tips. We will it so and so it is past all accident.

Amazing that a creature so obtuse could live so long without meeting disaster.

You're as sharp as a marble.

Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse.

'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.

In the present period of history we find ourselves in one of the worst possible cosmic ages, with Buddhism in full decline, and the people everywhere singularly obtuse about matters spiritual, and incredibly dimwitted when confronted with the wisdom of the sages.

It is a dull and obtuse mind, that must divide in order to distinguish; but it is a still worse that distinguishes in order to divide.

Love is obtuse and reckless; it interferes.

Men were so obtuse about things they didn't want to think about it.

Men were so obtuse about things they didn't want to think about.

Women can be immensely obtuse about all kinds of things,' Barnby was fond of saying, 'but where the emotions are concerned their opinion is always worthy of consideration.

Then he just blurted it out, with no preparation. 'The truth of it is that whether your mother arranged our marriage, or whether it was all an illusion, I must be horribly obtuse, because I can't talk myself out of being in love with you.

Lo serio, la muerte y el dolor fundan la verdad obtusa. Pero lo serio de la muerte y el dolor es la servidumbre del pensamiento.

In all ages of the world this eminently plausible fiction has lured the obtuse infant to financial ruin and disaster.

We have been obtuse toward nationalism and identity issues in the Middle East and have lumped it all into the basket of "Islam.

dumber than a box full of rocks.

Slavery and other forms of bondage, of course, have not been obliterated from the face of the earth. As a result of recent publicity about the trafficking of people for labor and prostitution, one sometimes hears the statistically illiterate and morally obtuse claim that nothing has changed since the 18th century, as if there were no difference between a clandestine practice in a few parts of the world and an authorized practice everywhere in the world.

For a wonderful guy who is usually so damn perceptive, you can be pretty obtuse sometimes.

Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse-- at least, blinded by the light, young love is.

Politic, cautious, and meticulous; full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse

Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous— Almost, at times, the Fool.